If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner
Kill one man, and you are murderer
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.